OPGC Summer Cricket Camp concluded
Bhubaneswar: The 14 days long summer cricket camp for kids of OPGC employees and periphery areas concluded on Sunday. The camp organised by OPGC at Rajiv Gandhi ground of IB Thermal Power Station aimed at coaching the aspiring young cricketers by the renowned cricket players of the State. The camp started on May 5th. Director(operation) Indranil Dutta inaugurated the camp in presence of Chief Medical Officer Dr Bijaylal Biswal, Chief of Administration CR Swain, Dy. Manager of CSR Dr.Dilip Sebak, Chief Of HR & Admin Pradeep Patra. In the closing ceremony Head (HR & Admin) Pradeep Patra joined as the chief guest. Total 86 boys between 11 years to 19 years of age took the benefit of this programme, out of which 38 are from periphery villages of IB Thermal Power Station. Reputed national and state level players were hired by OPGC to train the kids. They are ex-India under 17 captain Atish Jena, ex-ranji player Binod Singh, ex-India under 19 player Kamalesh Sharma, Jharsuguda district player Nitesh Sharma, Odisha Ranji star Natraj Behera and Waltier Topno.
Hockey Odisha beat Kerala in Sub-Jr Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey Odisha dominated the inaugural match by defeating Kerala by 12-1 goals in the 4th Hockey India Sub Junior Men National Championship (Division A) at Ranchi in Jharkhand on Monday. In the Pool A league match, Hockey Odisha showered goals on Kerala and which started right at the 4th minute into the match with Suraj Minz scoring a field goal. Suraj did not stop here and within 2 minutes he again successfully went past the defense of opponents and scored the 2nd goal for the team. Hockey Odisha again scored two back to back goals in the 11th and 12th minute coming from the stick of Sudhir Kujur and Amit Chirmako respectively. The team added another couple of goals in the 14th and 18th minute taking the score card to 6-0 at the end of first half. The second half witnessed the same story with Hockey Odisha continuing its goal scoring spree. They immediately went on the attack and scored its 7th goal just 2 minutes into the second half with Sudhir Kujur scoring again for the team. The team added 3 more goals in a span of 8 minutes and coming in the 44th, 47th and 51st minute and taking the score to 10-0. Kerala by now was completely in the backfoot trying to come back into the game. They finally scored in 64th minute with Imnad Farshid scoring through a field goal. Hockey Odisha added 2 more goals in the 68th and 69th minute and winning the match 12-1.
Results: Pool A – Hockey Odisha 12 Suraj Minz (4, 6 min), Sudhir Kujur (11, 37 min), Amit Chirmako (12, 51, 64 min), Ashwin Kujur (14 min), Suman Kujur (18 min), Nitin Mukesh Tigga (44 min), Tikei Kujur (47, 69 min), Biju Ekka (51 min), Sanjit Beck (64 min) bt Kerala 1 Imnad Farshid (64 min) vs Kerala 0 .